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Pierre Guérin de Tencin
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Aug. 22, 1679/80, Grenoble, Fr.
Died:
March 2, 1758, Lyon
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Pierre Guérin de Tencin

French statesman
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Pierre GuĂ©rin de Tencin (born Aug. 22, 1679/80, Grenoble, Fr.—died March 2, 1758, Lyon) was a French statesman, cardinal, and anti-Jansenist of the 18th century.

Tencin owed his quick advance to power to his sister, Claudine-Alexandrine GuĂ©rin de Tencin, influential mistress of a famed salon. He was successively abbĂ© of Vezelay (1702), vicar general of Sens (1703), ambassador to the Holy See (1721–24, 1739–42), archbishop of Embrun (1724–40), cardinal (from 1739), archbishop of Lyon (from 1740), and a minister of state for Louis XV (1742–50). He joined in bitter pamphlet debates against the supporters of Jansenism.

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